Bridge Winners Profile for Kenny Horneman

Basic Information

Member Since

Sept. 19, 2012

Last Seen

May 17

Member Type

Bridge Pro

about me

Part time bridge pro, based in Charlottesville, VA, available for tournaments, local club play, online play, have also done online commentating on BBO, and am currently a double dummy hand analyst for The Common Game. Check it out at www.thecommongame.com, it's an awesome opportunity for club players to compete and get regular hand analysis immediately after playing a session.

Country

United States of America

Bridge Information

Favorite Bridge Memory

Playing with long time friend Jerry Helms for the first time and having a 70% game

Bridge Accomplishments

Led national pair event after first day, several undefeated regional tournaments

1♠ was certainly a risky bid, since the bidding pretty much makes it likely that your partner has about 5-9 HCP and not four \ss and not four \cs and the opponents have a misfit (no double by partner, no 2♣ by partner, no raise, no 1NT, no ...

With an LTC of five, the South hand is more like a 4♥ rebid than a 3♥ bid. I would certainly bid 4♥ if East had bid 2♣, or at IMPs, and do not find it an objectionable bid even at matchpoints. Note that the South ...

The main potential benefits are that South might switch to another suit (unlikely, but what would you do as South if your club suit was AKxxxx?) or that South will lead back original fourth best from T9x or fail to unblock the suit if the ♦ finesse loses. The suit ...

Whether you play the Ace or not depends on whether you believe it more likely that West is leading from the stiff 10 or the QT9. The answer to this question will depend partly on the bidding, whether North has bid ♦s naturally and whether East has ever bid, showing ...

With a 4333 hand, a ♥K of dubious value, and a really poor ♠ suit I think it's reasonable to pass 2♥. As I mentioned in my analysis, I'm not even sure South should raise if North advances 2♠s over 2♥ after an initial 2 ...

The East hand, like most highly distributional hand, is impossible to bid accurately. There are two approaches on the hand. One is to assume that it's our hand, and start with 1♦, planning to bid some larger number of ♦s next. On the actual hand, this might work ...

Doug, -200 was certainly a common result on the board, and there were plenty of -300 scores as well, most likely due to playing 4♥. The Kaplan and Rubens method for hand evaluation is a formula for calculating hand strength that gives slightly higher values to Aces and Kings ...

As it happens, I don't ever choose hands for my analysis based on the hands themselves. I believe that almost every bridge hand is interesting in some way, and in fact have yet to find a hand that didn't have something worth noting in five years and 1000 ...

2♦ is certainly a possible opening bid, but the hand is a little strong for it and the distribution is terrible. Second seat is the worst seat for preempting, as you are just as likely to preempt your partner as the opponents (as the current hand is a good ...

Although I'm glad that you got a good result out of the hand, I think you were a little lucky. North should have doubled 2♥ and that is where you would have played. 2♥ will almost certainly go down three, and off four isn't outside the ...